Warnings: Spoilers for the end of the anime series and Conqueror of Shamballa. Also? It’s metafiction. Really bizarre metafiction.

Author’s Notes: Based upon my abiding love for encyclopaedic things (meta-within-meta; joy!). Not technically AU, since the anime canon is over and thus can’t really contradict it. Begins after King Bradley’s death; I imagine this was written (in-universe) some forty/fifty-odd years after the end of the anime series. Also, I gave Scieszka a first name for stylistic reasons. And mentioned beatniks and hippies; after all, it is parallel to us.

This is my first Fullmetal Alchemist fic. Constructive criticism is love.